Understanding the economics of improved management practices and systems on sugarcane farms

This report was completed as part of QDAFs obligations under Action 4 of the Reef Water Quality Protection Plan which aims to ‘increase understanding of farm management practices and systems, economics and water quality benefits’. Specifically it addresses the deliverable to ‘review existing commodity specific management practices and identify the most critical, cost effective and profitable management practices and systems’ with respect to the sugarcane industry in the priority regions of the Wet Tropics, Burdekin and Mackay Whitsundays. growers in the Mackay Whitsunday region.